I know right, I thought people were being over zealous when talking about her mono-tone voice. But now I can't believe no one said anything during production. The action sequences and her voice convey complete different moods.... She sounds freaking brainwashed.

You could hold a class discussion over all the narrative problems in this game. I have no idea how Moviebob, Neverchris, and my friend chris and his older brother could like this game or how samus is portrayed. The only thing all those people have in common is that they are serious nintendo fans but I don't think that can be a saving grace this time around.

Also good one about the Gordon freeman thing the game probably would have been different if he talked and had terrible or odd dialogue.

Bloody hell, When they wrote this game, did they imagine "Motherhood" branded on a giant metal bat and imagine beating players over the head with it?

I mean holy shit....Baby is mentioned way over a dozen times in the last video, and she won't stop saying the word "Baby"...it should be a swear word compared to how grating it is on my ears!

OT:

I found this hilarious. Other M is an abomination and the commentary was probably the only thing that got me through these cutscenes. Especially loved the Gordon Freeman bit, but I'd picture them giving him a gravelly voice, or have him voiced by Nolan North.

I guess Metroid: Other M was Nintendo's way of telling us that Japan's Space Marine (i.e. Samus) is more bad-ass than the typical American Space Marine (i.e. everyone else in this game), simultaneously trying to win points with the girl gamers by making Samus a woman while slapping those same gamers in the face by making her an emotionless dullard who's only getting in the men's way.

Can I go back to playing Space Marine now? At least Titus has a reason for being stoic; he's a warrior monk. I'd rather see him and Lieutenant Mira making googly eyes in some deviantArtist's portfolio than this.

I found this hilarious. Other M is an abomination and the commentary was probably the only thing that got me through these cutscenes. Especially loved the Gordon Freeman bit, but I'd picture them giving him a gravelly voice, or have him voiced by Nolan North.

Oh man. Considering how much Yahtzee loves Valve and Half-Life/Gordon Freeman and how much he despises Nolan North's voice acting, could you imagine how his reactions to that would be? Hilarious.

OT: What bad writing. It was as if three different games (One about Metroids, one about generic space marines, and one about a mother with daddy issues searching for her lost child) collided into one terrible monstrosity.

I didn't think the game (or, more specifically, the non gameplay aspects of the game) could be as bad as everyone said they were. I was wrong. This is horrendous. The VA is terrible but, let's be honest for a moment, the best VA on the planet couldn't make that dialogue sound good.

Good god. Those cutscenes are truly terrible. They were so bad that I wanted to stop the video despite the jokes being great. That's how bad those cutscenes are. I mean, damn. I can hear Samus right now following up this post with "mjc didn't like the cutscenes and was close to turning the video off". Who wrote this crap, and who thought this voice acting was good?! And I thought FemShep sounded like a monotone robot. FemShep sounds normal compared to Samus. Good god.

The saddest thing is that this is the intro, this what is supposed to hook you into the game. I would've turned off the game right there.

You just have to wonder how nobody on the team who was making this stood up during the "...and we'll call the ship Bottle-ship" or the "so they need a laser, and then she'll fire a rocket" part of the creative discusion and said "I think this is not that good".

Don't judge the whole series based on this game, that'd be like judging the entire Batman franchise on the '60s TV show.

mjc0961:Good god. Those cutscenes are truly terrible. They were so bad that I wanted to stop the video despite the jokes being great. That's how bad those cutscenes are. I mean, damn. I can hear Samus right now following up this post with "mjc didn't like the cutscenes and was close to turning the video off". Who wrote this crap, and who thought this voice acting was good?! And I thought FemShep sounded like a monotone robot. FemShep sounds normal compared to Samus. Good god.

Yeah, in all the history of Unskippable, I've never found the videos as painful to watch as these, the jokes made it only barely watchable, that's how god-awful I found the cutscenes.

Please, please, PLEASE do not judge all Metroid games by this tripe. This is COMPLETELY different in tone, style and most aspects of gameplay. Earlier Metroid games had no cutscenes at all, unless you count a few seconds of boss monsters roaring at you. Later ones are mostly action-oriented cutscenes, with some dialogue in Fusion (no VA) and the Primes (VA in 2 and 3, but not for Samus).

Here's hoping Nintendo learns from this mess and gives the Metroid rights to someone who actually knows what they hell they're doing.

Kysafen:I wonder what would get you guys to do a full blown LP of this game...

I'd feel guilty for watching them sit through such a torturous ordeal. JESUS CHRIST those cutscenes. I can understand them making plenty of LOL-worthy jokes, but to put to laugh at Paul and Grahams expense on such a level is purely inhumane. I wouldn't be able to sleep with myself....FREUDIAN SLIP!!

I mean I wouldn't be able to sleep at night knowing what they went through :(

They... really went overboard with the voiceacting. I mean, they went from silent protagonist to protagonist that never-shuts-the-fuck-up! (Thanks Spoony!)

What's worse is that I don't think she actually said anything to the people she met in this cutscene. Every single line from her was narrating what she had said or what she was thinking. I'm not a fan of the silent protagonist myself, mostly because it feels unatural if none of the NPCs seem to notice or care that the big hero next to them never opens his mouth (Alyx telling Gordon how he's a man of few words was funny but only made it worse).

But this game just tosses that advantage out of the window, since we still can only infer that she talked at some point, while running into every pitfall that makes people dislike speaking protagonists, and digging a few new ones while they're at it.

It isn't their usual style, but I hope the Unskippable crew treats the scene with Ridley (lame-ass name for a dragon btw) too. That scene can't get beaten on enough.

So basically, on top of what this comment thread has mentioned so far, Samus cannot use her abilities until she gets authorization from.... from some douchebag who leads a squad without the ability to open hatches like the one we saw Samus shoot open. A squad without NORMAL MISSILES.

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Graham... please tell me you and Paul will be doing something else next week. I don't think I'd be able to handle a three-parter of Other M.

Swifteye:You could hold a class discussion over all the narrative problems in this game. I have no idea how Moviebob, Neverchris, and my friend chris and his older brother could like this game or how samus is portrayed. The only thing all those people have in common is that they are serious nintendo fans but I don't think that can be a saving grace this time around.

Also good one about the Gordon freeman thing the game probably would have been different if he talked and had terrible or odd dialogue.

Can you tell me when or where moviebob said that? Id like to see that for myself.

Wow, this has to be one of the worst cutscene I've ever seen. And I've watched every Unskippable. Samus speaks in one tone through the entire video, can't emote and the writing is absolute shit. WTF happened?

No offence to you guys but dialogue like "Code name: Baby's Cry, a common SOS with the urgency of a baby crying, the nickname comes from the fact that the purpose of the signal is to draw attention" read like an encyclopaedia, mocks Other M better than anyone else can :D